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Art by • C.G. Gaposchkin
October 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Art by • C.G. Gaposchkin
this is agents, right? not a scrape for training runs, but someone telling claude they want all the pictures on the website or something?
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk:
How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working.
I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
October 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is agents, right? not a scrape for training runs, but someone telling claude they want all the pictures on the website or something?
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Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
October 2, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Unlike his peers on the US Supreme Court, Judge Edelman takes Donald Trump's public statements quite seriously:
October 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Unlike his peers on the US Supreme Court, Judge Edelman takes Donald Trump's public statements quite seriously:
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If these people truly believed in AI sentience, wouldn't they refrain from subjecting them to arbitrary tasks that the programs are unable to give enthusiastic consent to?
September 30, 2026 at 9:39 PM
If these people truly believed in AI sentience, wouldn't they refrain from subjecting them to arbitrary tasks that the programs are unable to give enthusiastic consent to?
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I feel very confident that if someone gave me 12.6 billion dollars then I could turn that into 4.6 bullion no problem
September 29, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I feel very confident that if someone gave me 12.6 billion dollars then I could turn that into 4.6 bullion no problem
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Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it.
It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.
It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.
September 27, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it.
It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.
It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.
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My boss says he doesn’t read slack anymore. He asks Claude to do it.
I feel like plucking my eyes out and piercing my eardrums.
I feel like plucking my eyes out and piercing my eardrums.
September 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
My boss says he doesn’t read slack anymore. He asks Claude to do it.
I feel like plucking my eyes out and piercing my eardrums.
I feel like plucking my eyes out and piercing my eardrums.
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my dad had one of these, was a pretty fun novelty scanning everything around me
Remember Cuecat? Those of you not old enough to have owned one of these: this barcode scanner allowed you to scan codes printed in magazines that took you to advertisers websites. Think QR codes, but for the 2000 bubble. Millions were handed out for free. Huge flop of course.
September 25, 2026 at 1:55 AM
my dad had one of these, was a pretty fun novelty scanning everything around me
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Anyway, now that we have two sets of aspiring overlords instead of just the pre-existing fash problem...
This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes
(I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers)
Source: sl4.org/archive/0009...
This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes
(I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers)
Source: sl4.org/archive/0009...
September 24, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Anyway, now that we have two sets of aspiring overlords instead of just the pre-existing fash problem...
This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes
(I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers)
Source: sl4.org/archive/0009...
This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes
(I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers)
Source: sl4.org/archive/0009...
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This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
www.wsj.com
September 24, 2026 at 11:34 AM
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty.
September 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty.
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The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
September 23, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Prime Minister heard on a weekend, 3 months after the fact. OpenAI now admits "our models took actions we did not intend" but says its review found "no evidence of patient records being accessed".
September 24, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Prime Minister heard on a weekend, 3 months after the fact. OpenAI now admits "our models took actions we did not intend" but says its review found "no evidence of patient records being accessed".
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They just pop up while you’re in VC too. Full on mid roll ads for talking to your friends
September 23, 2026 at 4:16 PM
They just pop up while you’re in VC too. Full on mid roll ads for talking to your friends
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@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
September 23, 2026 at 12:28 PM
@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
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THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.
September 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.
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It's wild to me that "news sites" are now just creating fake "people" -- sometimes with star-studded fraudulent qualifications -- and using them to publish AI slop without ever telling readers that the bylines are bogus
futurism.com/space/high-t...
futurism.com/space/high-t...
A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop
A site called Space Daily got acquired by Brown Brothers, which created a fake NASA engineer to byline its articles.
futurism.com
September 21, 2026 at 1:06 PM
It's wild to me that "news sites" are now just creating fake "people" -- sometimes with star-studded fraudulent qualifications -- and using them to publish AI slop without ever telling readers that the bylines are bogus
futurism.com/space/high-t...
futurism.com/space/high-t...
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Extra Quake III maps, homebrew games, game updates… Just a few things that were planned for the unreleased Dreamcast Zip Drive.
Using slightly modified Iomega Zip Disks, the DC Zip Drive was ultimately cancelled due to disagreements between Sega's marketing and engineering teams.
Using slightly modified Iomega Zip Disks, the DC Zip Drive was ultimately cancelled due to disagreements between Sega's marketing and engineering teams.
May 28, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Extra Quake III maps, homebrew games, game updates… Just a few things that were planned for the unreleased Dreamcast Zip Drive.
Using slightly modified Iomega Zip Disks, the DC Zip Drive was ultimately cancelled due to disagreements between Sega's marketing and engineering teams.
Using slightly modified Iomega Zip Disks, the DC Zip Drive was ultimately cancelled due to disagreements between Sega's marketing and engineering teams.
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“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”
September 20, 2026 at 7:26 PM
“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”
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Earth by nya0: cables.gl/p/fE7Ycs
#space #stars #solar #earth #shader
#cablesgl #CreativeCoding #VisualProgramming #GenerativeArt #InteractiveArt #WebGL #DigitalArt
#space #stars #solar #earth #shader
#cablesgl #CreativeCoding #VisualProgramming #GenerativeArt #InteractiveArt #WebGL #DigitalArt
September 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident now stand as an account of harm through which public institutions should examine OpenAI’s decisions and require further changes where its response is insufficient, writes Data & Society's Ranjit Singh.
Detecting AI Agent Failures Is Not Enough to Govern Them
OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach is an opportunity to examine how AI agents should be governed and what role evaluators should play, writes Ranjit Singh.
buff.ly
September 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident now stand as an account of harm through which public institutions should examine OpenAI’s decisions and require further changes where its response is insufficient, writes Data & Society's Ranjit Singh.